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Jack of all trades - but not very good at anything
I. “Do-it-yourself” guy: Why is it so?
(ESV) Genesis 15 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.”
(ESV) Genesis 16 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, …
A. Time involved
1. Walked with God awhile – nothing changed
2. Promises delayed long enough to test faith
B. Tension between action/submission
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Never passivity – looking to act as required
2. Never push ahead – avoiding getting ahead of God
C. Living with intense anticipation/expectation
1. Drives prayer life – What do I need to do / Supplication for God to act
2. Expectant waiting on God’s direction / required action
3. Expectation of personal involvement
4. Total dependence upon God’s active participation
5. What does it drive us to do?
II.
“Do-it-yourself” guy: Sarah models the problem
A. A personally painful condition
(ESV) Genesis 16 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.
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1.
Personal reproach – compounding issue – relieve personal pain
2. Apparent lack of personal blessing
B. A conflicting situation
(ESV) Genesis 16 1 … She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children.
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1. Giver of the promise / withholder of the promise
C. Rationalizedaction
(ESV) Genesis 16 2 … Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.”
1. God’s promises inhibited
2. Help God out – never ask Him about it
3. Resort to culturally accepted means
4. Forced resolutions (beware when it feels pressed)
III.
“Do-it-yourself” guy: Always negative impacts
A. Disruptedleadership
(ESV) Genesis 16 2 … And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
… 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived.
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The Lord is removed as leader
2. Abraham – passive in the face of wrong decisions
3. Stopped leading and became a follower
4. Note: he was still responsible - see below
B. Negative impact to a lost world
(ESV) Genesis 16 1 … She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
… 4 … And when she (Hagar) saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
1. Hagar – the victimized pagan
2. One outside the covenant – lost
3. Became disenchanted rather than being draw to God
C. Personal unfulfillment
(ESV) Genesis 16 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you!
I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt.
May the Lord judge between you and me!”
6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.”
Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
1. Unachieved goals
2. Still unfulfilled
3. Marriage a mess
4. Spiraling downward spiritually / behavior
D. Long-term problems
(ESV) Genesis 16 12 He (Ishmael) shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
1. Arabs of today still oppose their kinsmen
IV. “Do-it-yourself” guy: Surrenderingto trust Him
A. Waiting on the Lord
(ESV) Genesis 17 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram …
1. Late? 86 at birth of Ishmael – 14 years since chaos
2. Unfulfilled promise and desires for those promises for all this time – will you learn to wait?
3. Appears
4. Something important is about to happen
B. Recognizing the Lord’s sufficiency
(ESV) Genesis 17 1 … and said to him, “I am God Almighty; …
1.
El - Shaddai – mountain?
2. Power
3. Oversight of a sovereign God
4. Sufficient
5. Associated with God giving and fulfilling promises of blessing to his people
C. Living with expected empowerment
(ESV) Genesis 17 1 … walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”
1. Walk appropriately before Him
a. Walk before me – walk in full view – life in open display
b.
Live as I want you to live
2. Blameless
a. Like a sacrifice that has no blemishes
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Integrity
c. Describes relationship with God
d.
Always faithful to God
3. God empowered “I will …” –
a. not as previous command to multiply
b.
Establish a relationship based on covenant
c.
Bring blessing to you
D. Personally responding
(ESV) Genesis 17 3 Then Abram fell on his face.
And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
1. Reverent
2. Submissive
3. Believed
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